EMPRES Food Safety - Emergency Prevention System for Food Safety

Nutrition Division

EMPRES Food Safety - Emergency Prevention System for Food Safety

Strategic Plan

Year of publication 2010

Author Nutrition Division

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Synopsis (short abstract) An estimated three million people around the world, in developed and developing countries, die every year from food and water-borne disease, with millions more becoming sick. Occurrence of such disease can easily escalate to a food safety emergency situation, which can adversely impact national economies and livelihoods through reduced availability of food for national consumption, closure of export markets, and/or the high cost of addressing the effects of the threat.

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